Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2006
Niki climbs into the attic, crawls along on her belly, and comes upon a metal briefcase, which she finds to be filled with cash and a pearl-handled revolver. She drags it back the way she came and drops down onto the bedroom floor. She's just picking it up and getting ready to haul ass to Lollapalooza when a voice behind her grits, "All this time..." Yeah, it's D.L. That's not happiness to see her, is it?
After more commercials, Niki is spinning her tale of dual personalities, but -- as predicted by ikiN -- D.L. is having none of it. He grabs the briefcase and says that he's taking Micah: "Goodbye, Niki." Niki pants to catch her breath as the camera pans behind D.L.'s back, and when it glides past his left shoulder and Ali Larter comes back into view, she's turned into ikiN, pretty hair and all. ikiN shakes her head briefly, and then flings D.L. across the room and into a flimsy knick-knack shelf, which shatters. Micah appears in the doorway to ask if everything's okay, and ikiN smoothly tells him that she and D.L. are just moving furniture (heh), adding that he should go to his room. She closes the door and ambles over to the opposite side of the bed to get the briefcase back from D.L.'s grip...but D.L.'s disappeared! D.L. can go invisible?! Well, no -- as ikiN backs toward the wall, D.L.'s hands materialize through it, and he grabs her, because D.L. -- much like Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde before him -- can phase through solid matter. So now this is a superhero fight. AWESOME. ikiN throws D.L. onto the bed (breaking the frame) and straddles him, the better to situate herself in order to try to choke the life out of him. In the struggle, the camera makes a point of lingering as D.L. either cuts an amazingly symmetrical mark in ikiN's shoulderblade with his nails, or uncovers her tattoo. (Everything's moving too fast for me to tell which it is, but I'm sure Mohinder will be back at some point to explain what it is forty or fifty times.) Just then, of course, Micah comes in, terrified to see his parents fighting or fucking -- frankly, I hope I never walk in on OR overhear my parents doing either -- and just as it starts to look as though ikiN has the advantage, D.L. sticks his right hand into her diaphragm, reaches through her guts, and lets his hand appear again at her throat, where it chokes her. There's not much coming back from that, so D.L. pulls his arm back out of his wife (dirty) and leaves her for dead on the floor. Micah runs toward her, crying, but D.L. scoops him up and takes off.